From the Rani of Jhansi to Erwin Rommel, who is Britain’s Greatest Enemy Commander? Who has given the British Army the most trouble? Join some of the country’s most eminent historians in a day of fascinating talks at the end of which you decide.

We have selected a 20-strong shortlist of the most outstanding military commanders ever to face the British. The top five commanders, as decided by an online poll, will be represented at our all-day event by five leading historians.

The online voting has now closed and we can reveal that the five military leaders to be represented are:

Well..Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is one of the people responsible for the spreading of and unification of power that Muslims have today. So i can understand that, however id probably vote Michael Collins, considering how Ireland is still a boiling shit hole of arguments nearly a hundred years after his death.

Ireland's Michael Collins. Unlike leaders of large, well equipped armies, Collins almost single-handedly organised the remnants of a crushed rebellion into such an effective guerilla force that the greatest empire of modern times was forced to sue for peace. Who else ever matched that?

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